Technology is rad, isn't it? I mean, here we are with smartwatches on our wrists with pretty respectable LCD and AMOLED screens. We were using phones a few years ago that didn't have many more pixels than our watches have. Might as well put those pixels to use showing something pretty, like images from 500px. You can do that with Mural Watchface.

This watch face plugs into 500px to bring up the most popular images on the site. Simply pick the one you want in the phone app, and push it to the watch. On top of the image you get small circular overlays with the time, date, battery level, and weather. You can tweak this display to hide stuff you don't want. Mural Watchface also supports adding your own images to the watch.

The free version of the app only shows the top 10 from 500px, but a $1.99 upgrade pushes that to 40 and allows you to add unlimited favorites (among other things). Note, there is no black and white UI for this face when dimmed. So it's not ideal for AMOLED watches, and it's acting a little buggy on the G Watch R when dimming. The phone settings app is also a bit messy, but it's a quick and easy way to get pretty pictures on your watch. It seems to work swimmingly for most devices.

First of all, there are a lot of women who read AP. So, just keep that in mind. Secondly, it's tacky and unprofessional. This isn't redneckdreams.com. This is a serious tech blog. And lastly, and most importantly, it's really more about NOT perpetuating the constant oversexualization of women. Yeah, it's one thing if Maxim or Men's Health is doing it, but again, this isn't one of those sites.

darkdude1

This is why we can't have nice things. I suppose for equality purposes we should have a half-naked man there too, oh, and linustechtips should stop with all his sexual innuendos too...

Luca

redneckdreams.com doesn't work. I'm disappointed.

S_Dot

A woman in a bikini is oversexualization? What are you 10?

Mlibbey

Are you serious? They got it from the app, they didn't make that picture themselves. I'd also be willing to bet that 95% of the women that read this site care far less than you're making it out to be

No offense. But as an Arab you are probably used to see women being second class citizens and not displayed in public.

Here in the land of freedom we do things differently. We liberate everything that moves.

Chelsea

I'm a female reader and I was offended. Mostly because this kind of open sharing of sexually objecyifying imagary or language can be tiresome for women working in male dominated industries such as IT. And if we object, we are told to relax or that we are taking it too seriously or even that we are jelous (yeah, coz ever since I was a kid I've dreamed of walking around with a wedgie for a living, so that some low-brow can get off).

There is a time and a place, and the place for soft porn is not in my face as I check my tech feeds.

sdsd

Soft porn? This doesn't even come near "soft porn".

When you go to the beach you see all those people with bikinis, you call that beach a "soft porn" studio?

SAI

Yea, thank god you are here for them. Their knight in shining armor.........grow up

Samvith V Rao

What are you, a white knight for helpless princesses? I don't see a single woman whining about it like you just did.

You can't be serious... it's a picture from the app itself. Of a woman in a bikini. Ever been to a beach? The horror!

RyanWhitwam

Frankly, being upset about a photo of a woman in a bikini seems more sexist than posting one could ever be. There's nothing sexual about the picture. It's not a picture of a "half-naked woman." It's a picture of a woman in the ocean who happens to be clad in swimwear because that's what you freaking wear while swimming.

And, sexist? Half naked? Seriously? Didn't daddy take you to the beach when you were little? The woman in the picture is beautiful, she agreed to be photographed, its on the open web. And people appreciating that are "sexist"? Say sexist the next time you take a wank.